Winter - Spring 2015 Newsletter

SPECIAL BOOK PACKAGES FOR MEMBERS SPECIAL! See hundreds of historic photos The definitive county history and read about local history and award-winning postcard book Lewisburg, the pictorial history of Union County, Pennsylvania: A Celebration of Lewisburg, Kelly and East Buffalo History by Charles M. Snyder. Definitive county townships. PLUS history from the indigenous Native Americans, the The History of the Federal arrival of European settlers, development of Penitentiary at Lewisburg. UCHS townships and boroughs, to the events of 1970 to Heritage Vol. XX. Both books $35 2000; politics, transportation, schools, recreation, Union County's involvement in the Civil War and Mifflinburg and the West End: World War I. Hundreds of vintage and Swengel, Millmont, Laurel Park, contemporary photos, and scores of maps. PLUS Pardee, Glen Iron, Weikert, Rural Delivery: Real Photo Postcards from Hartleton, and Laurelton. PLUS Central PA 1905-1935. Reproduces 200+ local History of Mifflinburg written by photo postcards, plus a history of real photo cards Richard VB Lincoln 1899-1900. and local photographers. Both for $65 UCHS Heritage Vol. XIII. Both $30

New Berlin and the Buffalo SPECIAL FOR COLLECTORS Valley: Dry Valley, Dice, White Remember these fun decorations? Springs, Vicksburg, Buffalo The History and Magic of Honeycomb, with Crossroads, Mazeppa, Cowan, Red actual honeycomb examples, Bank, Rand, and Forest Hill. PLUS color photographs and History of Union County: New illustrations; explores the use of Berlin and the Townships of honeycomb in party decorations, Limestone and Buffalo written by cards, packaging, construction Richard VB Lincoln 1899-1900. UCHS and aerospace. PLUS the Heritage Vol. XV. Both $30 companion book Holiday Paper Honeycomb: Collecting Union County River Towns Photos Guide, a history of the Beistle of Allenwood, White Deer, New Company in Shippensburg, PA, the largest Columbia, West Milton and American manufacturer of honeycomb tissue- Winfield, Tea Springs, Spring paper products, and a guide to their products, Garden, Devitt's Camp, Alvira and with original prices, descriptions and detailed Central Oak Heights. PLUS illustrations. Both for $25. History of Union County Townships of Kelly, White Deer, Gregg, East Order on-line with PayPal at our secure website: Buffalo and Union written by Richard VB Lincoln www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org. 1899-1901. UCHS Heritage Vol. XVI. Both $30

Union County Historical Society office, 103 S. Second Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837 570-524-8666 ~ [email protected] www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org The President's Message UNION COUNTY The Pleasure in Giving and Receiving Several recent donations bring to HISTORICAL SOCIETY mind the avenues that gifting offers to the 2015 OFFICERS & BOARD donor and the recipient—in this case, the Jeannette Lasansky, President Union County Historical Society. M. Lois Huffines, Vice President One of the oldest county Bruce Teeple, Secretary newspapers recently found its way to us. Kim Ranck, Treasurer The Union Times of New Berlin came Kathy Taylor Brady, Sidney Dreese, from Betty Lou McClure of Lewisburg. Beth Hackenberg, Doug Hovey, Along with photos and paper ephemera—all very much Marj Kastner, Sharon Lynch, appreciated—came the news from 1816-17 printed on Mary Jo Spangler, Jeffrey Spotts, paper made from cloth rags and in a type that said and Eric Wagner “very old” even if there had been no year on its mast head. Monetary gifts from other individuals, designated for covering the costs of microfilming such rare items, then enabled us to make these, the earliest Welcome New Members newspapers in the county, readily available for others. who have joined since July 2014 A great layered applique quilt made west of John Coukart & Spring Garden on Route 44 in Gregg Township in the Erin Stanhope, New Berlin, PA 1850s was gifted to the Society by a descendent, Judy Ruth Fahmer, Mifflinburg, PA Read. The sewing needles of Moore or Irwin ancestors Andrea Hanna, Lakewood, CA drew with fine and sometime double quilting lines on John Jordon, Emporium, PA this family heirloom. Both abstract yet recognizable Albert Mabus, Turbotville, PA shapes such as the pineapple, a symbol of hospitality, Thomas Ray, State College, PA is seen on fields of white fabric. Red, green, and William R. Remer, Milton, PA orange floral shapes were sewn in layers, applied on Leon & Mary Louise Rowe, Lewistown, PA top of the white material. The Moore/Irwin quilt is a Bernard Solomon, Middleton, WI classic appliqué from the northeastern-most part of our Robert Stevenson Wedding, Ft. Worth, TX county. This was a treasured item when made and a Denise Williams, Lakewood, CO treasure now. Michael Williams, Allenwood, PA Several letters written to Cyrus Hoffa of Mazeppa Kathy Ann Wittes, Chatsworth, CA by friends enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil Warren & Chris Abrahamson, War were saved and then given a new home by long Denise Davidson & Dan Fineran, time member and supporter, Jean Ruhl. The letters Bernadine & Jean-Paul Richard, and reside in their colorfully printed envelopes that speak to Eric & Sarah Scheinreif, Lewisburg, PA a different time. They are composed in a careful script, now a dying art. Then there is the content waiting to be analyzed and put into context. Which aspect of this gift is most interesting one might ask. Receiving such gifts is just the beginning of the Thank you to Life Members Society’s involvement. Gifts trigger other giving as David E. Mensch, Maryellen Paulhamus, and volunteers gift their time: cataloging, boxing and David Goehring for their unrestricted otherwise caring for items; deciding when and how to donations, and Gary Cronrath for donation exhibit or for others to study old newspapers, phone toward the 2016 Heritage book. directories, correspondence, and ledgers. Those who research and write as in our online ACCOUNTS series Thank you to members or Heritage volumes enlarge the sphere of giving yet Jim & Lois Dale, Bernadine Richard and again as they collect, ponder the objects or documents Jeannette & William Lasansky for donations with their layers of meaning. for the Dale/Engle/Walker House; Thus acts of giving have a cycle that goes on Lois Huffines for donation for film digitizing; and on. We thank you for giving in one or many ways. Jerilyn Reniger and Janet Williams for Jeannette Lasansky unrestricted donations. 2 COLLECTIONS Archives and Museum Committee ~ Jeff Spotts As the holiday season comes and goes and we settle in for winter, we look back over the year and appreciate such accomplishments as a successful auction that raised funds for the Union County Historical Society’s Archives and Museum Committee (Committee) through the sale of duplicate items, items not fitting within our mission to collect articles made in the county or important to interpretation of its history. While it's natural for a historical society to look to the past, we also look forward to 2015 and beyond. While our goals can only be met through the reader’s continued financial support and donations of items, there is one asset that each reader possesses that they may not consider as an asset at all. That asset is time. Time is always at a premium. While we each often focus on creating more time, the ability to donate two hours per week (a bit over one percent of a week’s total time) could have a lasting impact on the Archives and Museum Committee. Our Committee is in need of volunteers who like to attend auctions, review items added to the UCHS collection, eBay aficionados, and especially those who would enjoy cataloguing our collection. Without your one percent donation of time, we face very negative impacts to staying ahead of organizing the UCHS collection so that historically significant items are preserved and available now and for future generations. We often ask for financial and item donations; we ask now for one percent of your time (which is far less than you would spend attending our three meetings per year and work sessions). If you would like to donate your time on a regular basis to the Society's archives and museum work, please contact the office at 570-524-8666 or [email protected], and you will be put in touch with the Chair, Jeff Spotts, to discuss how we can focus your time and talents to continue to grow as the County’s historical organization and leave a lasting legacy.

Gifts: We appreciate the following donors for items received since July 2014: • Jean Ruhl: box of local history and genealogical material including Chamberlin material and 5 letters to Cyrus Hoffa of Buffalo Cross Roads during the Civil War; • Doris Marino: The University of Lewisburg and the Civil War by J. Orin Oliphant 1963 and crocheted baby cap made by Vera Strassner of Lewisburg in 1921 for daughter Valeida Strassner; • Betty Jane Mincemoyer: 1968 Annual Pilgrimage to Old Buffalo Church; • Judy Read: five-layered appliqué quilt made by Elizabeth Moore Irwin of the White Deer Valley in mid-1800s; • Betty Kratzer and Larry Smith: Union County dog tags from 1921-1941; • Estate of Martha Rice Reed: Minutes and some treasurer’s records of the Lewisburg Thursday Sewing Bee 1940-2006; • Diane Lengle: advertising fan of the Evangelical Lutheran Brethren churches in Mazeppa, Sunrise, Forest Hill and Pleasant Grove and IOOF consolidation notice in 1970; and • Charles Schworer: five local RR blueprints from 1937 including the track into the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Lewisburg. Purchases made by the Committee: • 2 rare Gutelius woven coverlets made in Mifflinburg; • 1833 confirmation certificate of Suzanne Reish printed by Peter Montelius of Mifflinburg; • Cabinet photo of May Day celebration taken by Lewisburg photographer Hunter who took over the studio run by Pross; • Postcards: generic greeting card for Cohn (Pardee) and for Foresman’s store in New Columbia, real photo post cards of Blue Spruce Inn on Rte 15 north of Lewisburg, Laurelton’s Main Street, West End hay-gathering farm scene by photographer Urs Eisenhauer, Smith’s Winfield Quarry truck; and Winfield’s iron furnace, brick furnace house, and railroad station; • Sassaman’s Barber Shop, New Berlin 1941 calendar; church offering “red stocking” Christmas coin holders, Diehl’s Chevrolet advertising key ring, Purity Candy ash tray, Benfer & Reber booklets, and early envelopes with advertising. 3 UPCOMING EVENTS

February Programs at the Dale/Engle/Walker House 1471 Strawbridge Rd., Lewisburg Since 2003, the Union County Historical Society has made programming at the 1793 Samuel and James Dale home —a slave site until at least 1840 — part of its educational and interpretive mission. Slavery and the Underground Railroad are part of the discussion on Sunday afternoon tours, June through October, at the Dale/Engle/Walker House, and the focus of the Heritage book African Americans in Union County: Slave and Free. We continue to research this aspect of local and national history.

On Sunday, February 8 at 2 PM, sisters Frances Spiller and Helen Williams, who grew up in Lewisburg and now live in Northumberland County, will reminisce about the African-American families of Union County they knew. The sisters’ roots in Union County extend back more than 160 years, and their local family includes a Civil War veteran buried in the Lewisburg Cemetery. Watsontown resident, Kate Hastings will moderate the conversation. Hastings, a professor at Susquehanna Brady Thompson served in the University, has done extensive research on African Americans, particularly in Union Army in the Civil War. Milton, Lewisburg, and Hartley and Union Townships in Union County. On Sunday, February 15 at 2 PM, researcher and writer Jeannette Lasansky will give an illustrated talk about the primary source material that has yielded information about slave and free African-Americans, including handwritten letters, tax assessments, census records, wills, manumission records, sale bills, “passports,” written remembrances, photographs, cemetery records, and broadsides. Some of these items are in county courthouses, and historical societies or universities such as the Kroch Rare Books and Manuscripts at Cornell University. Other documents or items are still in family hands. Lasansky will point out how these records are less complete thereby making research more difficult. The programs and exhibit "Primary research documents for early African-Americans" for February’s Black History Month are open to all, free of charge, and suitable for children age 8 and older. Directions to the Dale/Engle/Walker House: from Route 15 in Lewisburg take Route 192 west for 1.5 miles, turn north on Strawbridge Rd and continue 1.5 miles to the site. Drive up the lane; parking is available at the house. Signs are posted.

Autosomal DNA: Good News, Bad News, and Even More Mysteries Tuesday, March 3, 7 PM at The Public Library for Union County, 255 Reitz Blvd., Lewisburg, PA Marj Kastner: “The family story about my grandmother's grandfather, Archibald, was that he and his brother drowned in Lake Michigan while trying to save a peg-legged man. Well before the internet, my eldest sister worked very long and hard on all branches of our family tree, but she was not able to find the truth behind this story or anything about Archibald's parents. She knew from his marriage record that he had been born in Cape Breton about 1846, married in Saginaw, Michigan in 1867, and that one of his witnesses (and presumably brother) was Joseph. The now widely available autosomal DNA testing has led me to one third cousin-once-removed, one fourth cousin and one fifth cousin who descend from Archibald's grandparents. DNA results, plus traditional genealogical methods, helped me find my Scottish heritage, and the true story of the peg-legged man.” This presentation by Marj Kastner, retired Bucknell professor of Chemistry and new UCHS board member, will briefly describe autosomal DNA (as opposed to Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA) and the related statistics, the differences among the commercial companies and how some of the DNA results may not be as conclusive as the DNA companies and TV shows suggest. The program is free and open to the public.

UCHS Members: Attend four programs during the year and receive FREE the definitive county history book Union County, Pennsylvania: A Celebration of History by Charles M. Snyder. 4 UPCOMING EVENTS The Millmont Times Thursday, April 9, 6 PM Program and Dinnner at the Union County Sportsmen's Club, Weikert, PA Tony Shively, a lifelong resident of Millmont, will share a PowerPoint presentation focused on his monthly publication, The Millmont Times. The April 1, 2015 issue of the local newsletter will be the 180th, and the last one published by Shively. Over the last 15 years he has endeavored to preserve the history of some of the people and places from the West End of Union County. During that time he has spent many hours interviewing people and conducting research that was incorporated into the stories and articles preserved on the pages of the local publication. Shively's presentation will review the origins of the newsletter as well as some of the interesting and fascinating people and places he has encountered over the years. The evening program will be a reflective and sentimental journey regarding The Millmont Times from its inception in May of 2000 through April 2015. The program follows a buffet dinner at the Sportsmen's Club. Reservation forms will be sent to local members in March. Others interested in attending, please contact the Society at 570-524-8666 or [email protected].

You’re Kidding, Aren’t You? An Offbeat View of Local History Sunday, April 12, 1 PM at the Campus Theatre, 419 Market St., Lewisburg, PA So you think you know your local history, do you? OK, try this: Brush Valley’s Mary Geis Hartzell once won a contest against a group of men from Buffalo Valley. Doing what? Drinking whiskey? Cutting grain? Or arm-wrestling? Learn the answers to this and over 40 intriguing, unusual and humorous questions about local history at You’re Kidding, Aren’t You? a game sponsored by the Union County Historical Society. Join host Mark Lawrence of radio station WKOK as two teams of local residents match wits with the audience in answering quirky questions about topics ranging from Pennsylvania Dutch powwow remedies, to beauty pageants, to Civilian Conservation Corps camps. See who wins and how! Tickets are sold on a first come basis: $10 general admission and $1 for high school students and children. Stop by the UCHS office or send names and check to the Union County Historical Society at 103 South 2nd Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837. On April 12, remaining tickets will be sold at the Campus Theatre box office starting at 12:30.

In Plain Sight: The Quilts of Our "White Top or Nebraska Amish" Neighbors Sunday May 17, 2 PM at the Dale/Engle/Walker House, 1471 Strawbridge Rd., Lewisburg, PA Jeannette Lasansky will give a talk on certain Amish quilt traditions in Pennsylvania, drawing upon her knowledge of the “White Top or Nebraska Amish” who have settled primarily in Mifflin, Centre, Union, and Columbia counties. Lasansky has written extensively on Pennsylvania material culture: quilt- making, pottery, and basket traditions, as well as historical blacksmith and tinsmith traditions. Her researching and writing have also been presented in media shows, movies, and exhibits starting in 1977. The results have often been published, but the focus of this Union County Historical Society program has not but is in plain sight—on area clothes lines, in house interiors, and at our farmers’ markets. Lasansky will explain the similarities and differences in rural cultural groups. The audience will see first hand: rugs, chair pads, haps, and quilts as well as hats and clothing of this, the most traditional plain sect group. The palette of their quilts reflects the fabrics used in men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing. Books on Pennsylvania’s quilt traditions by the historical society's Oral Traditions Project will be on sale just that day; some are currently out-of-print. Some are featured in a book by Lasansky, A Good Start: the Aussteier, that details the male and female dowry traditions from the 1700s for Pennsylvania- Germans as well as English groups like the Quakers and Anglicans. If the weather is good, the talk will be held outside, so bring folding chairs. If the weather is inclement, the program will be indoors with chairs provided. The program is free and suitable for all ages. 5 Union County History

Once Upon a Time in Union County Water-powered Gristmills of Union County Are you interested in research and local By Thomas P. Rich, professor emeritus of history? Why not share your insights with others and mechanical engineering, and David W. Del Testa, write an article for Once Upon a Time in Union associate professor of history, Bucknell University. County in the Daily Item and on the society website. The history of the county is told through The format is simple: write about a person, the stories of forty gristmills and the place or event in local history – a factual piece on people who operated them in every local history or how Union County was influenced by corner of the county, within both an larger national issues (see articles on WWI and international and statewide historical DDay for example) – in 300 to 600 words (that's one context, and the historical development Have you picked up to two double-spaced typed pages). of gristmill technologies and their your book? Recent articles covered the Pardee Lumber impact on the growth and physical Company; William Cameron, founder of the Wm. landscape of the county. Contains 260 pages Cameron Fire Company; Mifflinburg's Record-setting of text, drawings, and historical photographs. Chautauqua in 1925, early photography, and 1930's Heritage Vol. XXIV is a great resource for those pre-WWII correspondence. You can read all 84 past seeking genealogical information on mills that articles on our website. Click on Once Upon a Time played a part in their families’ histories. in Union County and select a title that interests you. FREE to members (+ $5 for shipping). Additional Here are some topics that could be explored: copies $23.75 + $5 shipping. Why is Mifflinburg's Market Street called Market Street when the stores are on Chestnut Street? What is the oldest building in your town, who built it 2015 Calendar and lived in it? Who are the Civil War soldiers Photos of the railroad at buried in your town's cemetery? What is the origin of W. Milton, an early 1900s 2015 these town names: Allenwood, Glen Iron, Laurelton Chautauqua circle, the county's and Winfield? (You can read about Mazeppa in first jail, Neyhart's Restaurant Once Upon A Time.) Was local historian R. VB. and Weidensaul's Livery, the Lincoln related to the 16th US president? Who were Yoder's 1910 Oakland car, Margaret Gundy and Mary Koons and where were Lewisburg Chair Company their shops? employees c. 1918, Forest House We will help you write a print-ready column, Hotel with Dieffenderfer family, I.O.O.F. Lewisburg and then send it off to the newspaper and our parade, Mifflinburg baseball team, Old Mifflinburg website. We have lots of photos that can accompany Grammar School class c. 1898, Sassaman's Glen your article. Or perhaps an old photograph will Iron store, Chestnut Hunting Camp members, inspire you, and the column will “write itself.” and Charles Oldt's stave mill near New Berlin. Send your article, your draft, or even a great Buy the calendar at the society office, the idea to UCHS via email or send hard copy by mail to Open Door Gallery in Lewisburg, Country Farm & UCHS, 103 S. 2nd St., Lewisburg, PA 17837. Home in Mifflinburg, Laurel Market, and at Elaine Wintjen branches of West Milton State Bank and [email protected] Mifflinburg Bank & Trust. Cost is only $6.

Take a Trip Through History On the Road: History Throughout Union County, a car tour on CD, is an enjoyable way to visit the countryside and towns in Union County. Dozens of sites spanning 200 years of county history are in this self-guided tour with stops in New Berlin, Dry Valley, Winfield, Lewisburg, Buffalo Crossroads, White Springs, Mazeppa, Hartleton and Mifflinburg. Visit the original county courthouse, cemeteries, mills, Plain Sect settlements, historic houses, and Bucknell University. Maps and instructional material included. The CD is narrated by area residents: John C. Snook from Mifflinburg, a Seebold descendant; Peggy Ulmer from Lewisburg, a Gundy descendant; Nancy Showers from New Berlin, a Ross family descendant, and David King of Mifflinburg, a descendant of 19th-century Union County Amish residents. Buy or order from the society office or website. Cost is only $10 for a great trip through history. 6 ACCOUNTS Become a published author. Make permanent what you know of our county’s history. We invite Society members to contribute essays to the Society’s on-line journal, ACCOUNTS of Union County History, now in its fourth year of publication with six articles per issue. If you haven’t looked at ACCOUNTS you can find any issue simply by going to www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org and clicking on an issue in the ACCOUNTS box. In the most recent issue you’ll find essays on the Susquehannocks, an account of a soldier from Union County who was with Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, accounts of Native American attacks and retribution, the Union Seminary in New Berlin, and restoration of a log house in Mifflinburg. Essays can be about historic episodes, people, buildings, businesses, groups, families, celebrations, and the countless factors that make up Union County’s history. You don’t have to be an expert, an experienced author, or trained researcher: just put down what you know. ACCOUNTS articles range from four to twelve double-spaced pages. Additional guidance is found at the end of every issue. We are ready to work with you to shape a draft and prepare it for publication. Just get in touch with either of us. Know someone we should contact about authoring an essay? Let us know and we’ll do the inviting. We want to hear from you. Let’s not allow the history we know today to disappear tomorrow. Tom Greaves, [email protected] ~ Sidney Dreese, [email protected] Co-Editors, ACCOUNTS of Union County History

UCHS & SPOOM to host a Tour of Union County Gristmills Mark your calendars for April 16 through 18 for a tour of Union County Gristmills and local history. Come and be a SPOOMER for one to three days in April! SPOOM is the national Society for the Preservation of Old Mills. The Mid-Atlantic section of SPOOM in conjunction with the Union County Historical Society will host this program. It is a follow-up to the UCHS Bicentennial Heritage edition Water-powered Gristmills of Union County, Pennsylvania. The tentative program includes visits to H&C Grove’s Mill, Johnson’s Mill, Sampsell’s Mill (Penns Creek Pottery), Fort Titzell and Titzell’s Mill site, as well as the LeRoy Massacre site, the Mifflinburg Buggy Museum and Elias Church. Local coordination of this event is being handled by Bill and Sharon Lynch and Tom Rich. The exact schedule of events, costs and registration details will follow via a UCHS email when finalized.

MICROFILM The society's microfilm files include newspapers from 1834 onwards, and phone directories starting in 1899. Newspapers and directories are an invaluable aid in researching the history of local families, businesses and events. Donations are sought to pay for microfilming the Mifflinburg Telegraph newspaper for 2003 through 2014, and local phone directories for 2012 to 2014. The name of the donor, or for whom donated, can be put on the microfilm box as a rememberance. Any financial support you can provide to support this project is appreciated. Send donations to the UCHS office and indicate whether for newspaper or directory and any preferred year.

RESEARCH LIBRARY UPDATE Added to our family books: The Bennyhoff Family c. 1640-1940 Switzerland, Germany, Pennsylvania, Illinois. By Carl Green A Study of Henry Hunsicker the Gunsmith by David Laidacker, donated by the author. Violet Road, Buffalo Twp, Union County, PA: Selected Families (Dauberman, Diehl, Eidem, Heimbach, Krick, Walker) by Ray Moyer, donated by the author. Wittes and Gilbert - Isaac Wittes1818-1867. Donated by Kathy Wittes Added to the library: From The Heart of Pennsylvania: In today’s rural Pennsylvania, artistic excellence carries on a tradition spawned more than two hundred years ago. Gunsmithing book by Paul Gosnell. The Millmont Times 2014 issues to date. 7 Recent Genealogy Searches and Their Researchers If you have information to share, contact UCHS at 570-524-8666 or [email protected] or contact the researcher (address and/or email is below).

KNIPE: Dave Laidacker, 30 Limstone Rd., Danville, PA 17821. [email protected] WARTHMAN: Geoff Warthman, 1680 Grenoble Rd., Columbus OH 43221. [email protected] VAN GUNDY: Jim & Judy Can Gundy, 210 Buffalo St., Elkins, WV 26241. [email protected] BRYAN: Mary Sieminski, 419 Shady Knoll, Monstoursville, PA 17751. [email protected] AURAND, MERTZ: David Kinney, 791 E. Hollister St., Stayton, OR 97383. [email protected] FREDERICK: Ron Moyer, 8607 Wood Camp, San Antonio, TX 78251 STRINE, Wm, c. 1835: Kathryn Popio, 563 Highland Ave., Wadsworth, OH 44281 PAWLING, HUMMEL: Karen Nace, 9220 Mitchell Bend Ct., Granbury, TX 76048 SHAFFER: Louise Jennings, 1370 Catawba St., Kingsport, TN 37660 SMITH: Betty Stevens, 112 Stony Point Dr., Sebastian, FL 32958 JOHNSON: John Soicer, 232 Main Rd., Spring Mill, PA 16875 BOYER, HENSKY, FILLMAN, SCHWENK: Rita Abair, 21 E. 6th St., Tempe, AZ 85281 SPIGELMEYER: Allen A. Spegelmeyer, 621 5th St., Northumberland, PA 17857 BOONE: Ruth Fahmer, 47 E. Maple St., Mifflinburg, PA 17844 DEWIRE: Leon & Mary Louise Rowe, 123 Shaw Ave., Apt A, Lewistown, PA 17044 MAURER: Rollin Yeakle, 162 Cheryl Dr., Midland, MI 48640 WITTES, BETZER: Kathy Wittes, 29101 Dupont #14, Chatsworth, CA 91311. [email protected] YOUNGMAN: Jim Youngman, 515 9th St., Selinsgrove, PA 17870 YERGER: Nancy Stover. [email protected] BOWMAN, MARR: Bill Bowman, Joe Bowman. [email protected] WAGNER: Barbara Cusick. [email protected] KELLER, BOYER: Christopher K. Keller, 1210 Vine St., Sandusky, OH 44870. [email protected] DENNIS: Stephanie Stevens, San Jose, CA. [email protected] STULFUS: Dorothy Titera. [email protected] HOWE: Dave & Linda Schriffler, 370 Hollowbrook Dr., Carlisle, PA 17013 RODERMEL: Wayne & Deb Rarig, 105 Cottage Rd., Shippensburg, PA 17257 TORREGROSSA, Priscilla Stowe, 611 Shriner Ave., Lewisburg, PA 17837 BINGAMAN: Marilyn Lepley, 7318 Grover St., Omaha, NE 68124 DIEHL: Jim Diehl. [email protected] GEISWITE, SAUERS: Grant Fisher, 168 Fruit Farm Rd., Lewisburg, PA 17837 KOSER: Valerie Bieber, 1225 Snyder Rd., Milton, PA 17847 CROSSGROVE: Brent Skelton, 104 W. Track, Brashear, MO 63533. [email protected] STRAYHORN: Gary Zentmyer, 1434 Foothill Blvd., La Canada, CA 91011 RUDY: Sue & Dick Baylor, 830 Kaseville Rd., Danville, PA 17821 EIDEN, KRICK: Ray L. Moyer, 6 Eagan St., Pottsville, PA 17901. [email protected] IDDINGS, MCCLENAN, THOMPSON: Andrea Hanna, 305 Zang St. # 3042, Lakewood, CO 80228 MANBECK: John Grimes, 37 Seltzer Ave., Womelsdorf, PA 19567 BAKER, LYNN, CATHERMAN: Philip H. Scaglione, 310 Municipal Rd., Ebensburg, PA 15931. [email protected] FOWLER, Thaddeus Mortimer, birds-eye map-maker: Nicholas Ciotola. [email protected] WINFIELD and LEWISBURG QUARRIES: Albert Mabus, PO Box 5, Turbotville, PA 17772. [email protected]

8 When Then Becomes Now by Bruce Teeple Last year, a local historical society asked me to narrate a video they planned to sell as a fundraiser. The society had digitized, edited and spliced short films of the region taken by a local businessman back in 1937. Since movie cameras and film at that time were too expensive for most people, the society was fortunate to get these films. The clips were of villages, schools, students, stores and mills, as well as the area’s two Civilian Conservation Corps camps. There was even coverage of a fire and rescue drill by the fire company. Little things, such as seeing a gas station attendant wiping windshields and checking oil, had me trying to remember when people stopped providing those services. As we concentrate on preserving history for the future, it’s easy enough to take our present world of “selfies,” shopping malls and smart phones for granted. But when all those places and things have gone the way of railroads, hometown department stores and quartz crystal radios (and they will), someone will surely look upon our times as their “good old days.” Is anyone actually filming today for posterity? The photographer didn’t realize how much we’d appreciate his documentary of the seemingly mundane. He was capturing his time for his contemporaries, not for us 75 years later. He didn’t identify anything or anyone. They knew who and where the subjects were. We don’t, other than recognizing a few extant storefronts and landmarks, or relying on the faded memories of those school kids from long ago. Google Maps’ aerial and ground views are fine, but they’re incomplete. Is anyone archiving all those images before they’re updated? Perhaps you could have a small army of amateur videographers take street-by-street, house-by-house views of your town. You may also want to intersperse the shots with interviews of neighbors, asking them to "say hello to the future," and share what they think is important. Undertaken as a community project, this sort of video time capsule would be an interesting (and relatively inexpensive) way to raise our neighbors’ historical consciousness. Not only would it make us all aware of our immediate landscapes in ways not always seen, it would also help us appreciate the role of change in our lives. So how can you make your successors’ jobs easier if you were to undertake a similar project? Here are a few suggestions, although I’m sure you can add a few of your own: Look at some old photographs and maps. What information aren’t they conveying? Put yourself in the place of a visitor from the future. Think of the questions they’d ask and the difficulties they’d have in getting oriented today. Establish some simple guidelines and questions. Use a topographic map or similar reference to give future viewers some context. That road, house or shopping center probably won't be there 100 or 200 years from now. Consider having a variety of people from all different ages and backgrounds participate in, or even do the filming. Identify everything and everyone. Make sure a date accompanies your film. Don’t forget to place everything within a context: What came before? What’s happening now? We’ve all slapped ourselves on the head, wishing we had caught an image or made a recording for posterity. With photographic technology so cheap and available, what better gift could we give our tomorrows than a slice of today? Courtesty of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)

An Afterword by M. Lois Huffines Bruce Teeple narrated an introduction to the digitized film, now on DVD, 1937 in Mifflinburg and Western Union County. As Bruce describes above, the film provides 36 minutes of life and daily routines from the town of Mifflinburg and surrounding villages. The film was literally rescued from a trash can. As a DVD, it has brought back to many individuals and their families vivid memories of relatives and friends, some long gone; other viewers were excited to see younger versions of themselves. It took months of interviews and research to identify the places shown on the film because that information had not been recorded. Recently come to light is a similar 16mm film of 1937 in Lewisburg. It is also being digitized, and after more months of interviews and research, it will become available to the public. What I find most gratifying in discovering these gems from the past is when someone viewing the DVD suddenly yells out, “That’s my sister!” “There’s my father!” “Look, it’s old Joe—with dark hair!” The memories flood back, and the stories of long ago pour from the heart. In the film, street scenes with factories, stores, schools, fire halls, and churches, some of which no longer exist, come alive with people doing what they always did—living a life and building a community. There they are now, in 1937!

9 PEOPLE MAKE A DIFFERENCE

The society's Annual John B. Deans Dinner and Program was held on November 6, 2014 at the Carriage Corner in Mifflinburg. Harold JR Erdley – a second-generation fire-fighter, life member of the New Berlin fire company, charter member of Lewisburg Professional Fire Fighters and EMTs, Sergeant at Wm Cameron Engine Company in Lewisburg, and adjunct instructor at the PA State Fire Academy – gave an excellent presentation on the history of fire fighting in New Berlin. Awards for significant contributions to the appreciation and preservation of local history The award for Outstanding Service was presented to Glenda Sheaffer of Mifflinburg. Glenda was born in Lewisburg. Her father was in the Air Force and the family lived in Arkansas, Texas and Idaho. Glenda returned to Pennsylvania one week after graduating from high school in Idaho. She holds a Certificate of Accounting from Susquehanna University, and worked for the Commonwealth of PA for 25 years, last as a caseworker for the Union County Assistance Office, retiring in 1999. She volunteered as a local and national disaster volunteer worker for the American Red Cross, making eleven national trips, including to NY after 9/11 and two assignments Marj Kastner, left, and Glenda Sheaffer after Hurricane Katrina 2005/2006. Since 2007 she has worked as an instructor at Hoover's Bernina in Mifflinburg. Glenda started genealogical research in 2000 after realizing that she had women in her family with empty family trees. She has received old photos and documents from both sides of the family. She still enjoys the hunt for details and mysteries to be solved, and has a 93 year old grandmother who continues to share family information. Glenda is a life member at Snyder and Union county historical societies and recently joined the Northumberland and Huntingdon societies. Glenda has donated copies of her genealogical work to the society's library and has written articles for our newsletter that engage readers in the genealogy search. Glenda is a dedicated Friday volunteer in our courthouse office, assisting many visitors in documenting their family history. We are very grateful that Glenda chooses to share her work and her time with the society.

The Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to Buffalo Valley Antique Machinery & Equipment Association. Now in their 29th year, Buffalo Valley Antique Machinery and Equipment has been a partner with the Union County Historical Society’s Rural Heritage Day events since the event’s inception. With a strong base of 208 members from the area, Buffalo Valley Antique Machinery and Equipment collects, shows, operates and interprets a large variety of antique farm equipment including hit-and-miss pieces. They own early farm equipment as individual members and as a group. A major acquisition has been an attraction at our events: the Nichols Shepard steam engine. In addition to being at the Dale/Engle/Walker farm with lathe, shingle maker, box maker, bailer, thresher, tractors, and more every year since 2004, Buffalo Valley Antique Machinery and Equipment goes annually to the big Penns Cave and Loyalsock shows, and to many parades, including Watsontown, the 4th of July in Lewisburg, Milton’s Harvest Festival, and the Fireman’s Carnival in Mifflinburg. Accepting this Achievement Award on behalf of the Buffalo Valley Antique Machinery and Equipment Association – a lifetime member of the UCHS – are their representatives Bill Deitrick, right, presents Award to President Mark Cromley and Pete Wertman. Pete Wertman and Mark Cromley. 10 OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS

Mary Belle Lontz has provided the Jack L. Fisher specializes in land research. society with a wealth of information He will trace a property back from the on the history of this area, Union, present ownership to the earliest, Snyder and Northumberland from deeds in the county office and counties, and the families who through tax and census records. His lived here. completed documents include She wrote an invaluable detailed maps and a wealth of index to Linn's Annals of Buffalo information on the property. Jack also Valley, and has indexed the new Arcadia books, as does family history research for those seeking to well as many family histories. She compiled know about their Union County ancestors. He has Tombstone Inscriptions of Union County, upon about 30 years experience in genealogy and land which later listings were based. Her transcription research. from microfilm of the 1850 Union/Snyder county Jack is the fifth great grandson of John census – the first census showing all household Fisher, one of the earliest settlers in Union County members – is an important research aid (along in 1769 (then Berks County, later in 1772, with subsequent census transcriptions). Other Northumberland County), and fourth great books provide information on deaths and grandson of Michael Fisher, an SAR-certified, marriages, local boroughs; and central PA soldiers Revolutionary War Soldier who served in the local, who fought in the Revolution, War of 1812, Civil Northumberland County militia. War, Mexican War, Spanish-American War, The son of Fred J. Fisher, Sr. and Jean M. Philippine Insurrection, WWI and WWII. (Allabach) Fisher, Jack was born and raised in Mary Belle earned a degree in Elementary White Deer, Pennsylvania, attended White Deer Education from Bloomsburg State Teachers Elementary School (1960), Milton High School College (Bloomsburg University) and several (class of 1966), and received a degree in advanced degrees. She taught school locally for accounting from Penn State University (1973), and many years. an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in Mary Belle is a Life member and Past Cleveland, OH (1989). He served in the U.S. Navy president of the Union County Historical Society, from 1967-1971, Petty Officer 2nd class, Avionics member of the DAR, Daughters of the War of Technician, specializing in air-intercept radar. 1812, Daughters of the American Colonists, Jack is retired, but the primary care-giver for Indiana Society Pioneers, and past president of his 90-year-old mother. the North Central Chapter #8 Archeology Society. Those interested in land or genealogy Mary Belle continues her research on local research can contract with Jack through the UCHS history. Her books are available for in our library. office. Land research is on a case-by-case basis.

Research Services Friday office volunteers Genealogical research ranges from the Judith Blair, Kathy Brady, Jack Fisher, search for a single document (such as a will or David Goehring, Tom Greaves, Beth obituary) to complete family history. Fees are $7 Hackenberg, Doug Hovey, Marj Kastner, Dan & (single document) to $40 and up (full search) Gloria McDavitt, and Glenda Sheaffer. depending on complexity. Please inquire. In addition to assisting visitors to the office, Deed searches are negotiated on an volunteers take on projects like organizing books, individual basis. Send queries to the society office. arranging displays, looking up obituaries and news DIY: Staff and volunteers will help visitors reports, searching on ancestry.com, and writing doing research at the UCHS office and courthouse: articles (see Dan McDavitt's Once Upon a Time Monday through Friday, 8:30 - 4:30 (closed noon to article "Flood Years of the Susquehanna’s West 1:00). Members may use the library for free; non- Branch"). members are asked for a $5 donation. Copies are Are you interested in volunteering in the $.50/page. Check our website for resources and office on Fridays one morning or afternoon per family histories available. month? Contact or visit the office. 11 Board of Directors Joining the UCHS Board are Marj Kastner and Bruce Teeple

Margaret "Marj" Kastner Bruce Teeple is a writer, local grew up in South Bend, historian, speaker, and columnist Indiana, graduating from for the Centre Daily Times. A Indiana University at South graduate of Penn State in history Bend (BSEd) and Notre Dame and political science, he served for (PhD in Chemistry). nineteen years as curator of the Dr. Kastner taught at Aaronsburg Historical Museum. He Bucknell University from 1984 edited and co-authored Glimpses of to 2013. Her teaching at the Past in 1994 and In Schadde Bucknell was primarily X-Ray Crystallography, and vun Rundkopp (In the Shadow of Roundtop) in general chemistry, as well as a Foundation 1999. In 2010, the Union County Historical Society Seminar on genealogy called "Family History and published his chapter, “Post-Abolition Slavery in History's Families." Outside of the Chemistry Pennsylvania (And How They Got Away With It).” Department, Kastner served terms as Pre-Health He has also contributed chapters to the Small Professions Advisor, Chair of the Education Museums Toolkit and most recently, to Zen and the Department, and Assistant Dean of the College of Art of Local History, both published by Rowman and Arts and Sciences. Littlefield. Kastner currently serves as the Treasurer Since 2004, Teeple has served as a state and Web Master for the Lewisburg Cemetery judge for the National History Day in Pennsylvania Association and regularly volunteers in the UCHS competition. He is also secretary and chairs the courthouse office. scholarship subcommittee for the Small Museums Marj's eldest sister, Kay, infected Marj with Committee of the American Association for State the disease called genealogy. Kay gave Marj her and Local History, and serves as editor of AASLH’s two major brick walls. Using a combination of Small Museums Online Community. visits to courthouses and local historical / Teeple gives talks on local history before a genealogical societies in Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, variety of church, school, scout, and social groups. Michigan and Ontario, and exploiting autosomal He has presented papers and chaired sessions at DNA, Marj broke those walls, of course creating several regional and national conferences. He also new brick walls. She loves the hunt! reviews grant proposals for the Institute for Museum and Library Services and for the History Channel’s Program by Marj Kastner Save Our History program; teaches adult education March 3 at 7 PM, Autosomal DNA: Good News, classes through Penn State’s Osher Lifelong Bad News, and Even More Mysteries at the Learning Institute; and coordinates over 150 Public Library for Union County, 255 Reitz Blvd, volunteers for Penn State’s annual Native American Lewisburg. See page 5. pow-wow. Teeple is currently writing As Good as a Handshake: the Farringtons and the Political Culture Lois Huffines Named Vice President of Moonshine in Central Pennsylvania. Lois Huffines retired in 2007 as Associate Bruce Teeple will serve as Secretary on Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor the UCHS Board. of German and Linguistics at Bucknell University. Since retiring, Lois has served as president of the Programs by Bruce Teeple Lewisburg Kiwanis Club and the Union County February 2 at 7 PM, History of the Amish Historical Society. Huffines chairs the society's at the Public Library for Union County, 255 Reitz publications committee, and wrote two of the four Blvd, Lewisburg. Arcadia pictorial history books: Lewisburg and Mifflinburg and the West End. She supervised February 23 at 6:30 PM, Down and Dirty: Civil digitizing the1937 Mifflinburg and Western Union War Medicine at the Union County Library in County film and is currently working on a vintage Laurelton. film of Lewisburg, as well as the upcoming These programs are free and open to the public. Heritage book. 12 EDUCATION SUMMER INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE Memory Quilt Presentation: Undergraduate students are a Gift from the Gutelius House Museum to encouraged to apply for a summer internship Mifflinburg Intermediate School at the Union County Historical Society. Last spring during one of two local history Students must meet these requirements: events organized by the Union County Historical • attend an accredited four-year PA Society, the Mifflinburg Gutelius House staff focused college or university, and • be eligible for financial aid, and on local textiles, and students signed Memory Squares • live in Union, Snyder or with their classmates. Led by Lorraine Lenhart the Northumberland County. squares were quilted into a colorful quilt which was recently presented to the Intermediate School. Leroy Paid internships positions are available and Jennifer accepted on their class’s behalf. for one or two students who are currently enrolled in college or university. Internships are intended to enhance the students education and compliment their fields of study. Applicants should have an interest in history, research and writing, and non-profit organization development. Work at the historical society office (open Monday through Friday) may include genealogical research, writing newspaper columns and press releases, designing the 2016 calendar of historic photos, member support through correspondence and data entry, and general office tasks. Interns may also serve as tour guide or host on Sundays at the Dale/Engle/ Walker House. Letters of interest must be received at Left to right: Sharon Lynch of Union County Historical UCHS by February 28. Society, Leroy Simpson, Linda Bollinger, Lorraine Lenhart, Please contact Bob VanHorn at UCHS Anna Raschi, Karen Fritz, and Jennifer Bowersox. 570-524-8738 for more information.

Education is a valued tradition in Union County, Pennslyvania Attention: Scouts, Home Schools, Sunday School Classes, Public and Private Schools, Civic Clubs You’re invited to experience the turn of the century one-room Red Bank school house. Would you and your organization like to meet in a historic setting? Through a collaboration of the Union County Historical Society and the West Buffalo Township you have the opportunity to use the 1886 little brick schoolhouse for your spring meeting. • May 1-18 from 8:00 AM– 7:00 PM we will schedule your group. • The building will accommodate up to 40 people. • There is drinking water and toilets, but no kitchen facilities. • Donation of $20.00 requested. • To schedule and for more information call Sharon Lynch at 570-837-5710.

Nancy Miller portrays a Red Bank School marm and offers encouragement to Mifflinburg 4th graders who are practicing the art of writing with a quill pen. David Goehring, school master for a day, looks on approvingly as students work diligently to improve their penmanship. 13 The 1793 Dale/Engle/Walker Historic Home and Farm

As the late Charley and Rosie Walker’s A second part of vision for their homestead (1957-2001) enters its our present vision is to 14th year under Society ownership, we can note have the property two significant steps taken. overseen and cared for One is our moving ahead with seeking by volunteers, both National Register status for the house. Since ten members and friends of years ago, when the property was deemed the society. To this end, “eligible” for the recognition, we know so much member Bill Deitrick from the New Columbia area more about the house and its inhabitants from has served as an active, determined, and creative 1793-1840. This was when Samuel Dale was the Assistant Property Manager. Bill’s experience as a head of the household, followed by his youngest farmer and as head of the Union County son James. Our research has revealed this as a Conservation District, has been invaluable. Bill is slave site from its inception and until 1840 when unable to continue as he had, and two others have the census recorded a male slave there, 55 years agreed step up to those volunteer responsibilities: or older. Earlier there was a female slave, probably Eric Imgrund, who has worked on the property in Dinah, at the house and growing older as the years many ways in matters of earth moving, and Fred passed. This makes the Dale House unusual as it Swanger who lives directly across the road from is more than an imposing Georgian-style limestone the Dale house. Eric and Fred join us in our effort building but was also a house that mirrored some to be the very best caretakers we can be in of the patterns of slave holding in the Northeast or implementing the collective vision of the Walkers, until Pennsylvania passed its total abolition law. our members, and the general public. It takes a To help the historical society secure a team and I would like to thank the following people National Register designation, we have hired in particular for giving of their time and expertise in consultant Emily Cooperman of Philadelphia, who 2014: Bill Deitrick, Bob Van Horn, Gary Spangler, has guided other projects through the process, that William Lasansky, Jim Arndt, Fred Wert, David was started earlier for the Dale House by local Goehring, Dan McDavitt, Tim Bittner, Geoff architect Ted Strosser. A restricted fund has been Goodenow, Ben Hoskins, Deb Wehr, Diane Lengle, set aside to underwrite this effort. Several gifts Sharon Lynch and A-1 Lock and Key. They make including the Helen Royer Bequest will be used for my being Property Manger that much easier. this purpose. Other donations are welcome. Jeannette Lasansky Dale/Engle/Walker House Guided Tours and Exhibits Sundays 2 to 4 PM June through October 1471 Strawbridge Road, Lewisburg, PA This historic property opens for the season on Sunday, June 7, offering guided tours of the house, the furnished original hearth, wagon shed with tools and farm equipment, milk house with dairy display, and two new exhibits. The house is open Sunday afternoons from 2 to 4, June through October. Those interested in serving as hosts or guides at the house on one or more Sundays during the summer are encouraged to call the society office. Training is provided. This is a wonderful way to suport the society and the Dale/ Engle/Walker property, and to learn about local history while meeting visitors from near and far.

Like us on FACEBOOK The Union County Historical Facebook site has grown to 360 followers. Every time a posting is placed on the page, 360 individuals will see the listing. In the last month the following people were reached: 1149 in USA, eight in Germany, two in France; one each in Canada, Austria, United Kingdom, and Egypt. The Facebook page allows the Union County Historical Society an opportunity to make the history of the county more visible to residents of the county and to those in other states and other countries. If you have "liked" the page, please share the postings with your friends. Hit the “like” button to help our numbers grow. The link to the Union County Historical Society Facebook page can be found on the UCHS website: http://www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org. Kathy Brady 14 SOCIETY EVENTS: Looking Back and Looking Ahead Christkindl Market, 2014 Communities of Union County Rural Heritage Day July 11, 2015 Many thanks are extended to Glenda Sheaffer, Diane Lengle and Kathy Brady, who Plans are underway for Rural Heritage Day, to comprised the Christkindl Market Setup Committee. be held July 11, 2015 at the Dale/Engle/Walker These volunteers donated their time, creativity and property. The theme this year is “Communities of energy to plan and implement the decoration of the Union County,” highlighting our county's UCHS booth, provided safe-keeping of the cash box communities of craftsmen, agriculturalists and and further contributed by staffing the booth during other skilled workers. the Market. Along with many fine demonstrators who have Bruce & Michelle Teeple, Kim & Steve participated in the past years, Ranck, Doug Hovey, Beth Hackenberg, Duain & we will once again have some Joyce Shaw, Sharon Lynch, Marj Kastner, Jamie new faces demonstrating some Wagner, and Jeannette Lasansky filled out the old, and fascinating skills that schedule to staff the booth, and we heartily thank have ancestral ties to our them all!! county. Come and see how our Kathy Brady provided snowflake-making German ancestors made a basket from an oak design and expertise. She made some of these log, and witness roof three-dimensional flakes for our booth last year and shingles taking shape from they caught the eye of many shoppers! So we pieces of split tree trunk! decided to put together kits with instructions and Gutelius weaving will be represented, as well as paper squares needed to make 3 snowflakes: Widow Smith's gun barrel small, medium and large. The Setup Committee met boring with a wooden to prepare these kits right machine! after Thanksgiving. We made This year the bridge over Buffalo Creek on 39 kits and 17 were sold Strawbridge Road, next to the Dale/Engle/Walker during the three day Market. property lane, will be closed for replacement. The remainder are in the Therefore, we will reverse our Rural Heritage Day UCHS Courthouse office and traffic flow. Visitors will arrive from Rte 192 and available for those who would turn north onto Strawbridge Road, continue 1.5 like to craft some pretty miles and see signs indicating entry to the decorations and have some grounds at the corner field lane. There will be clear directional signs posted along the way. fun at the same time! Visitors will then park and walk past the Also sold at Christkindl were Family admission table and down the farm lane to the Heirloom Weavers' table runners and table squares grounds among the house and out-buildings, designed by Lewisburg weaver Jacob Angstadt where demonstrations will be on-going from 10 (1809-1880), and Alabama weaver J. Lovell AM to 5 PM. To exit, vehicles (1800s). New this year were Fraktur squares, based will be directed south of the on old Pennsylvania designs. They compliment the buildings and onto the normal Belsnickle, Snowman and Peace & Plenty runners farm lane which will deliver that are traditionally sold by the society at Christkindl them back to Strawbridge Market. Road. Traffic flow will be A big Thank You also to our office staff Bob down-hill. Admission will be $5 per Van Horn and Elaine Wintjen for procuring weavings adult and $2 for students in from Family Heirloom Weavers, collecting books to grades K-12. Admission is be sold, and making sure the little details (like cash free for children under school in the box, clear price lists prepared and having a age. fire extinguisher on hand) were ready for us. At least 20 people were directly involved Step back in time with your family and friends with planning, implementing, and staffing for our for a fun day at Union County Historical Society's successful Christkindl booth. Rural Heritage Day! Deb Wehr Saturday, July 11, 2015 from 10 AM to 5 PM 15 Union County Historical Society Union County Courthouse 103 South Second Street Lewisburg, PA 17837

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Membership in the Union County Historical Society supports programs, historic sites tours and Red Bank one- room school experience for county students, and the growth of our collection of Union County photos, postcards, account books, diaries, and items made by Union County crafts people. Membership also enables us to maintain the 1793 Dale/Engle/Walker House which offers tours, exhibits, programs and Rural Heritage events. Members receive the biennial Heritage book, newsletters, a discount on books and free use of our extensive reference library.

Mail this form to: Union County Historical Society, 103 South Second Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837 (570)524-8666 ◊ [email protected] ◊ www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org

Please circle membership level: Name(s) ______Student (K-12)…………… $10 Address ______Individual …………………. $30 Family ...... $45 City ______State ______Zip ______Contributor…………… … $100 Email ______Patron ...... $150 Phone (H)______Phone (W)______Lifetime (individual) ...... $500 The Union County Historical Society is a non-profit organization. Membership is tax deductible. In addition to membership, donations specific to the Society's work: education, the collection, genealogy, the Dale Library or the Dale/Engle/Walker property, are gratefully accepted. Unrestricted donations are used as the Board of Directors feels there is a need. The Society is prepared to accept gifts of appreciated property and planned giving, such as bequests. Thank you for your support. The Union County Historical Society office / reference library is in the Union County Courthouse, 103 S. Second Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837. Hours are M - F 8:30 - 4:30 (closed noon - 1:00). Visit our website: www.unioncountyhistoricalsociety.org for events, articles, resource list and more.